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by donaq 17y ago
By that token, law is also trivia. The thing is, how successful do you think the internet is going to be? It has, within a few decades, permeated almost every aspect of our lives, and it seems set to get even bigger. An analogy in human his
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by donaq 17y ago
URLs are much farther from everyday reality than objects like books I should point out that the reverse is true for many people these days, and will be true for many more in the future. The digital revolution is creating a new reality, me
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by donaq 17y ago
The page doesn't look bad, but it's not super impressive either because it's obviously heavily inspired by facebook. Just to give some credit where it is due, the real genius here is the guy who wrote blueprint.css, without which the OP cou
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by donaq 17y ago
This is quite excellent. The first concretely constructive post about the facebook login meme.
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by donaq 17y ago
Well, Geocities used to be a behemoth only a company with mega resources like Yahoo could undertake. When it went down, a few individuals archived most of it [citation needed]. I'd imagine that if and when Facebook goes down, something alon
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by donaq 17y ago
I decided grades were bullshit and rebelled in college because I failed a programming module while people who copied my lab work passed. Even worse was when people who copied my answers for a quiz got higher marks than me even though our an
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by donaq 17y ago
OTOH, we now have programs routinely run in homes (e.g. games) that occasionally require computing power orders of magnitude higher than what was available ten years ago. I expect that if we have orders of magnitude more power deliverable t
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by donaq 17y ago
You're right on both counts, and it is indeed a poor idea unless we can figure out a way to efficiently implement arbitrary precision arithmetic in hardware. I was just quibbling that the implementation of the binary search wasn't strictly
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by donaq 17y ago
And yet, when we find another car in the lot in which we were almost positive we'd parked, we do not call the car manufacturers complaining that our car has spontaneously transformed, do we?
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by donaq 17y ago
This seems more like a limitation of the language implementation than a program bug to me.
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by donaq 17y ago
Agreed.
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by donaq 17y ago
It's not a telepathic, shape-shifting alien, it's an omnipotent alien that created the universe and implies that there is no reality higher than this. Would that impact your faith? Assuming for the sake of argument that he's not lying, woul
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by donaq 17y ago
I do not think that is possible for the human race without some serious brainwashing. Either that or look out for the school/office shooting types and make sure they get constantly laid, for the good of all humanity.
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by donaq 17y ago
Well, you don't need to understand your code fully to effect changes in the simulation. The point is that it is a simulation, and you control the code. So you'd be omnipotent, just not omniscient. You know, that scenario would actually expl
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by donaq 17y ago
I stopped reading when the author made a leap in logic from superhuman intelligence to omniscience, and then from omniscience to time travel just within the abstract. This was obviously not a well thought out piece.
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by donaq 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what would your reaction be if you found that it wasn't fiction? Would you accept the entity the author was conversing with as God? Or would you think he was a demon? Or just an advanced godlike alien being beyond which an
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by donaq 17y ago
Huh. Sorry, I can't access it now either.
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by donaq 17y ago
Not only that. It's really stupid to use IP addresses instead of domain names because, guess what, most sites share IPs these days.
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by donaq 17y ago
Well, Google followed up on it and she wrote another post about that. http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/screw-you-google/
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by donaq 17y ago
I see what you mean. However, I wonder if they could utilize used water for conversion to hydrogen. And if so, whether it would be enough.
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by donaq 17y ago
As I understand it, they're getting the hydrogen from water in the first place, so...
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by donaq 17y ago
Huh. I totally ignore buzzes in the way that I ignore tweets. I read them only when I have the time. I have no idea why buzz is generating so much Google hate.
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by donaq 17y ago
Interesting. How much effort have these people put into acquiring computer literacy though? It is hard for me to believe that anyone with average intelligence who applies him/herself for a day or two cannot master browsing the web. I mean,
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by donaq 17y ago
The comparison to generators does not seem valid. Outsourcing your electrical needs is not the same as outsourcing your IT needs. I don't think many companies would (or should) outsource their data storage, for example.
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by donaq 17y ago
That's true for me too. I enrolled in computer engineering in university without any interest or experience whatsoever. Then I wrote a horrible mIRC script and boom, suddenly I was interested in algorithms.
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by donaq 17y ago
the real thing you're saying is that it's about your needs, not the other person's. Really? Why, because you say so? Firstly, no girl "needs" a diamond. Secondly, doing things that don't make sense in order to please others has already be
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by donaq 17y ago
Far be it from me to suggest that YC is not good for people, but... After school, you get a job. After YC, you create jobs. Not necessarily. You repeat the works of the greats in school. YC expects you to do original work. There is valu
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by donaq 17y ago
That's probably because you're making the erroneous assumption that just because money is your lowest priority, it's also the lowest priority for others.
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by donaq 17y ago
Is that relevant? The point I was making is that Apple should not be discouraging it regardless. Be that as it may, you make an interesting one. Are you saying that Microsoft should be discouraged from marketing Office for Mac as Microsoft
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by donaq 17y ago
While I agree that the article title was linkbait, I think the author had a valid point in noting that mentioning that the app was a finalist in a big competition does help in vouching for the app's usefulness. This isn't something that App

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